Reposted by Heather PayneOrange Water and Sewer Authority @owasa-nc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do you have a genuine desire to serve people? Do you want to help govern and manage our most precious natural resource? Apply to join OWASA's Board of Directors! We have 2 vacancies on our Board and are seeking dedicated and diverse individuals to join. Submit your application today: 111
Reposted by Heather PayneJoel B. Eisen @joeleisen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Very happy to have our article on data centers accepted for publication in Villanova LR. Couldn’t ask for a better co-author than @lawprofpayne.bsky.social! We focus on a surprisingly basic problem: obtaining info needed to understand the data center development process. Download: shorturl.at/wZ4hWshorturl.atData Centers' Data Problem<p>The rapid expansion of data centers to support artificial intelligence and cloud computing is reshaping the electric grid while exposing a fundamental weakne 143
Reposted by Heather PayneJennifer Oliva @jennoliva.bsky.social · 23/07/2026@iumaurerlaw.bsky.social seeks to hire several TT law professors this academic year & welcomes entry-level & lateral candidates. Our hiring details and the application portal is available here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33776. Our committee would love to hear from interested candidates.indiana.peopleadmin.comAssociate Professor of Law or Professor of LawIndiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington is seeking outstanding entry-level and lateral tenured/tenure-track applicants to meet needs in a variety of curricular areas caused by planned r... 02629
Heather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 14/06/2026With focus on affordability, instantaneous access to electric consumption data should be the minimum: www.utilitydive.com/news/access-.... But that's not enough. There is plenty of theory to say that customers own their data & that's what regulators should require utilities implement. More on that:papers.ssrn.comSharing Negawatts: Property Law, Electricity Data and Facilitating the Energy Sharing EconomyWhile the sharing economy has mostly focused on tangible assets or facilitating labor transactions, the potential to incorporate sharing—in the form of changes 010
Reposted by Heather PayneHeather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Last week I had the honor of accepting the 11th Annual Morrison Prize for my article, Reliance and Reliability. The prize, awarded by ASU Law, recognizes the most influential sustainability-focused legal scholarship published in the past year - so it means a lot to see this work resonate. 192
Heather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Last week I had the honor of accepting the 11th Annual Morrison Prize for my article, Reliance and Reliability. The prize, awarded by ASU Law, recognizes the most influential sustainability-focused legal scholarship published in the past year - so it means a lot to see this work resonate. 192
Reposted by Heather PayneHeather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I am thrilled that my article, Reliance and Reliability, has been awarded the 11th Annual Morrison Prize! More info on the prize here: law.asu.edu/newsroom/hea... And the article can be downloaded at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 041
Heather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I am thrilled that my article, Reliance and Reliability, has been awarded the 11th Annual Morrison Prize! More info on the prize here: law.asu.edu/newsroom/hea... And the article can be downloaded at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 041
Reposted by Heather PaynePhil McKenna @mckennapr.bsky.social · 10/12/2025My latest: More than half of Americans’ nitrogen dioxide exposure can come from gas stoves, depending on how often they cook, a new study concludes insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...insideclimatenews.orgGas Stoves Account For More Than Half of Some Americans’ Exposure to a Known Toxin, New Research Concludes - Inside Climate NewsThe common kitchen appliance plays an outsized role in exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a toxic air pollutant. 12315
Heather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Thanks for highlighting, @ssrn.bsky.social! Excited that the final version comes out next week. 040
Reposted by Heather PayneJoel B. Eisen @joeleisen.bsky.social · 26/09/2025NEW article - Energy Data Justice - with my outstanding co-author @lawprofpayne.bsky.social - proposing a new framework for governance and access of energy data. Download at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 021
Reposted by Heather PayneHeather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 16/09/2025So excited to have two selections in ELPAR! Summary of Utilities With Purpose (with my amazing coauthor @joeleisen.bsky.social) & abstract of Repurposing Fossil Infrastructure in this issue. Full length articles at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (UWP) & papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (RFI).papers.ssrn.comUtilities With PurposeEnvironmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting has become a mainstay of corporate and investment decision-making, although not without controversy. Corpor 053
Heather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 16/09/2025So excited to have two selections in ELPAR! Summary of Utilities With Purpose (with my amazing coauthor @joeleisen.bsky.social) & abstract of Repurposing Fossil Infrastructure in this issue. Full length articles at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (UWP) & papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (RFI).papers.ssrn.comUtilities With PurposeEnvironmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting has become a mainstay of corporate and investment decision-making, although not without controversy. Corpor 053
Reposted by Heather PayneAri Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · 15/07/2025"Intervenors have established significant risks that the Partners will engage in operational and financial engineering to increase returns." 08023
Reposted by Heather PayneHeather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 26/06/2025New paper! A Blockchain for Coal Ash aims to describe a system where we are actually tracking coal ash - and transparently recording where it ends up. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comA Blockchain for Coal Ash<p>We are in the middle of a dynamic period of energy and environmental law – and this dynamic includes significant technological changes as well. Putting these 132
Heather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 26/06/2025New paper! A Blockchain for Coal Ash aims to describe a system where we are actually tracking coal ash - and transparently recording where it ends up. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comA Blockchain for Coal Ash<p>We are in the middle of a dynamic period of energy and environmental law – and this dynamic includes significant technological changes as well. Putting these 132
Reposted by Heather PayneNick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 14/05/2025"A new study from Stanford University found that children living in homes with frequent gas stove use and poor ventilation face nearly twice the lifetime cancer risk from benzene exposure compared to adults." www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic... 054
Reposted by Heather PayneSSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Ghostwriting the Government: This article by Bridget C.E. Dooling argues that when #government decision-makers rely on #ghostwriting, it can conflict with their duty to reason & make informed decisions. Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en... 132
Reposted by Heather PayneSSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025#Artificialintelligence is rapidly changing various professional sectors, including the #electric grid. This article by Heather Payne & Joel B. Eisen highlights beneficial applications of #AI in the grid context. Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en... #LawSky 132
Reposted by Heather PayneUniversity of Richmond School of Law @richmondlaw.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Professor @joeleisen.bsky.social and Ohio State's @lawprofpayne.bsky.social were honored at the 2025 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review Conference in D.C. for their article "Utilities With Purpose," named one of 2024's top 5 environmental law articles. law.richmond.edu/features/art...law.richmond.eduAward-Winning ScholarshipProfessor Joel Eisen’s “Utilities with Purpose” recognized as one of the best environmental law articles of 2024. 062
Reposted by Heather PayneJoel B. Eisen @joeleisen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Excited to announce that “Artificial Intelligence and Energy Democracy,” by me & @lawprofpayne.bsky.social, is forthcoming in the San Diego Law Review. We discuss how AI can assist intervenors in PUC utility cases who currently encounter many barriers. Download at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 042
Reposted by Heather PayneStand.earth @stand.earth · 05/03/2025The fossil fuel industry knows hooking up gas to new buildings gives our kids asthma and irreparably damages our climate. They’ve launched an international campaign to make sure we keep doing it anyway.desmog.comThe Fossil Fuel Industry Wants to Keep New Buildings Dependent on GasA new report shows how a strategic worldwide campaign to delay building electrification policies risks public health and climate goals. 02618
Reposted by Heather PayneJennifer Oliva @jennoliva.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Yes! Me and @lawprofpayne.bsky.social wrote a whole article about the health harms of gas stoves and proposed a legal remedy in Warrantying Health Equity here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comWarrantying Health EquityThe United States is experiencing a significant rise in the prevalence of asthma and other debilitating respiratory and cardiovascular ailments that disproporti 021
Reposted by Heather PayneAndrew Gelston @agelston.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Power companies pressure Trump EPA to roll back rules on toxic coal ash energynews.us/2025/01/29/p...energynews.usPower companies pressure Trump EPA to roll back coal ash rules| Energy News NetworkA letter signed by executives from a dozen firms asks the EPA to let the companies off the hook for cleaning up harmful coal ash sites. 162
Reposted by Heather PayneEric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025This is a perilous moment for lawyers in federal service. Stories of resistance from within can help. This book tells of lawyers who helped run the Japanese American camps of WWII. We can learn from their struggles to reconcile job with conscience. Would you please share? tinyurl.com/mrxm6vv2 4274138
Reposted by Heather PayneClare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 15/01/2025I’ve been reporting for 2 years on a proposed federal rule to slow boats in order te save the critically endangered right whale. Republicans and boating lobbyists spent millions to block the rule by running ads, overwhelming NOAA and running down the clock. It worked 👇 apnews.com/article/whal...apnews.comBiden administration withdraws rules to save endangered whales from collisionsThe federal government is withdrawing proposed rules that would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to save a vanishing species of whale. 8168108
Reposted by Heather PayneTriangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 15/01/2025We made a list and we hope you check it twice - and make sure to send it to everyone you know in NC thegriffinlist.comthegriffinlist.comThe Griffin ListA list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ... 32027
Reposted by Heather PayneJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Eric Biber, The Importance of Reliability in an Age of Electrification (December 5, 2024) (reviewing Heather Payne, Reliance and Reliability, UC Irvine L. Rev. (forthcoming); Joshua Macey et al., Grid Reliability in the Electric Era, 41 Yale J. on Reg. 163 (2024)), lex.jotwell.com/the-importan....lex.jotwell.comThe Importance of Reliability in an Age of Electrification - LexHeather Payne, Reliance and Reliability, UC Irvine L. Rev. (forthcoming), available at SSRN (January 30, 2024). Joshua Macey, Shelley Welton, & Hannah Wiseman, Grid Reliability in the Electric Era 41... 012
Reposted by Heather PayneDr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 22/12/2024The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Dental Association (ADA) endorse water fluoridation. The CDC has recognized water fluoridation as one of the ten great public health achievements of the 20th century. 521208573422
Reposted by Heather PayneAri Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · 18/12/2024On Monday, I filed a comment at FERC on behalf of 5 energy law professors about FERC's approach to providing consumers relief when it finds that a utility made imprudent decisions -- elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...elibrary.ferc.goveLibrary 2202
Reposted by Heather PayneBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 12/12/2024The health costs to restaurant workers of gas stoves are fantastically bad. Methane, CO2, CO, NOx, VOC pollution at dangerous levels even when vented, with constantly dangerous heat exposure equivalent to being outside in the worst heat waves. #agu24 4319
Reposted by Heather PayneJennifer Oliva @jennoliva.bsky.social · 08/12/2024I’m obviously frustrated with the constant allegation that the huge (and only one they can come up with) benefit of the US healthcare system is “not having to wait for services.” Are there any of you that have a story about having to wait to your health detriment for US healthcare? Please share. 5312326
Heather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Excited that a forthcoming article, Reliance and Reliability, has been reviewed by Berkeley Law’s Eric Biber in Jotwell: jotwell.comjotwell.comJotwellThe Journal of Things We Like (Lots) 071
Heather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 21/11/2023Excited that Warrantying Health Equity is finally published! The amazing @jennoliva.bsky.social and I argue that the implied warranty of habitability - which adheres to every residential contract and cannot be waived - should be expanded to allow tenants to require the removal of all gas appliances.papers.ssrn.comWarrantying Health EquityThe United States is experiencing a significant rise in the prevalence of asthma and other debilitating respiratory and cardiovascular ailments that disproporti 042
Reposted by Heather PayneDrew Anderson @drewanderson.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Let's try that again with a proper image. It really is difficult to describe the oilsands mines in northernAlberta. The scale defies description and warps your senses when you look down from the air. These incredible photos from Amber Bracken help tell the tale. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oils...thenarwhal.caA dizzying bird’s-eye view of Alberta’s oilsands | The NarwhalThe Alberta oilsands is the largest bitumen deposit in the world. And for many Canadians, the mining there is still completely unseen 13228
Heather Payne @lawprofpayne.bsky.social · 13/09/2023Thrilled to be publishing "Utilities With Purpose" in the FL L Rev with the amazing @joeleisen.bsky.social. We argue utilities' ESG commitments are insufficient to address climate change & that state PUCs should require utilities to change their corporate charters to become "purpose-driven."papers.ssrn.comUtilities With PurposeEnvironmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting has become a mainstay of corporate and investment decision-making, although not without controversy. Corpor 060